'As the plot goes, Algy inherits a farm in Taranaki which is reputed to bear oil. His cousin has tricked him out of the better property, but Algy falls in love with the daughter of the manager. The girl, to help her father, goes on the Sydney stage, but the cousin acquires an interest in the show, and discharges her when she refuses to marry him. Things look black for both Algy and the girl, but in the nick of time word comes through that oil has been struck, and happiness comes to them both. Playing in the leading feminine role is Bathie Stuart, a New Zealand actress and a credit to her country.'
Source:
The Evening Post, Saturday 21 November 1925, via the New Zealand Feature Project (http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/feature-project/pages/Algy.php). (Sighted: 15/8/2014)
'This article studies The Adventures of Algy, a 1925 "Australian-New Zealand comedy-romance," and in particular the "Māori dance" performances of its Pākeha heroine, Kiwi McGill. Dance serves multiple functions in the film, reflecting a trend for primitivism in global silent cinema, claiming Māori performance culture for a settler colonial narrative, and acting as a means to translate modern experiences. As such it offers a mechanism to reconsider what Miriam Hansen has described, in relation to the classical Hollywood cinema, as "vernacular modernism" in the form of a minor, and only marginally successful film: "one of ours".'
'This article studies The Adventures of Algy, a 1925 "Australian-New Zealand comedy-romance," and in particular the "Māori dance" performances of its Pākeha heroine, Kiwi McGill. Dance serves multiple functions in the film, reflecting a trend for primitivism in global silent cinema, claiming Māori performance culture for a settler colonial narrative, and acting as a means to translate modern experiences. As such it offers a mechanism to reconsider what Miriam Hansen has described, in relation to the classical Hollywood cinema, as "vernacular modernism" in the form of a minor, and only marginally successful film: "one of ours".'
